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Flying cars ain’t here just yet (despite pop-cultural assurances made by The Jetsons and Blade Runner), but Singapore will soon get the next best thing: hovering, flying, electric taxis.
The world’s first vertiport (a portmanteau of “vertical” and “airport”) for electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles (eVTOLs) is set to open on Oct 21, and will be located in Marina Bay.
But don’t think that we’re all flying to and fro Marina Bay and Queenstown for lunch just yet. The upcoming vertiport will be used for live flight trials for on-demand air taxi services before it actually launches for real — something that’s only estimated to take flight from 2022 onwards.
UK-based urban air mobility infrastructure firm Skyports will be handling the vertiport’s construction, and its managing director Duncan Walker has assured that the Singapore government is fully supportive of the project.
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